AACI: Tickets are now on sale for our AACI concerts on Saturday and Sunday, January 28 and 29, 2017 at 3 p.m. Our theme is "Let the Knowing Speak"

Tickets are now on sale (click here) for our AACI concerts on Saturday and Sunday, January 28 and 29, 2017 at 3 p.m.!

Because our concerts generally sell out, we encourage you to purchase tickets early at Brown Paper Tickets. Be sure to select your preferred date from the drop-down menu.

The timely theme for the concerts is “Let the Knowing Speak,” where we will present music born of African American history told in the powerful language of spirituals, blues, jazz, instrumental music, and song.
 

Performing on the 2017 concerts are soprano Yolanda Rhodes, pianists/vocalists LaDoris Cordell and Deanne Tucker, Picasso Ensemble: violinist Susan C. Brown, cellist Victoria Ehrlich, pianist Jodi Gandolfi, flutist Stephanie McNab, clarinetist Carol Somersille, bassoonist Rufus Olivier III, trumpeter John Worley, trombonist John Monroe, percussionist Jim Kassis, the modern dancers of Eastside Prep, and special guest artists pianist Valerie Capers, bassist John Robinson, tenor Othello Jefferson, and saxophonist Oscar Pangilinan.
 

We look forward to seeing you in January!

AACI Co-Founders LaDoris Cordell, Jodi Gandolfi, and Deanne Tucker, along with all the musicians of AACI.

For more information on the African American Composer Initiative, please visit: www.aacinitiative.org. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Musical Grant Program of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the service of chamber music in California and a matching grant from the Carpenter Fund. AACI is a fiscally sponsored affiliate of San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the service of chamber music in California.

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